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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-14-04 09:57 AM
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Any South Dakota DU'ers? Give us the inside skinny on this race
A South Dakota Race to Watch

It’s a message for the GOP: A pro-choice woman just might win an election for the state’s only congressional seat

March 12 - Roe v Wade may be the law of the land, but the government of South Dakota thinks it knows better. Thanks to the combined effort of the GOP-controlled legislature and a Republican governor, abortion is illegal in South Dakota.

There are no exceptions, not for rape or incest or for the life of the mother. And the Born Again ethicists who drafted the bill define life as beginning with conception. Enough Democrats voted for this travesty that it’s a bipartisan trashing of women’s reproductive rights.

Yet leading in the polls by 30 points in South Dakota’s June 1 special election for the state’s sole congressional seat is a pro-choice, thirty-something single woman, Stephanie Herseth. The contradiction between Alice in Wonderland legislating and real life as it is lived in the 21st century could not be better expressed.
South Dakota rarely captures the nation’s attention, but Karl Rove is watching this one closely. Herseth is running in an open seat to succeed Republican William Janklow, who is in jail on a manslaughter conviction. If the Democrats capture the seat, it will be the party’s second win this cycle in a special election, a harbinger that could bode ill for Republicans in November.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4515121/
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